322 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voiv. IX, 



Gymnodactylus albofasciatus, Boulenger. 



Cat. Liz. Brit. Mits. I, p. 37, pi. iv, fig. 2 and Fauna, p. 66. 



This species differs greatly both in lepidosis and in colouration 

 from G. oldhamii, with which Beddome confused it (see Boulen- 

 ger, Cat. Liz. I, p. 35). It is probably to this confusion that the 

 belief of the occurrence in South India of the latter species is due 

 (p. 320). 



The only specimen in the Indian Museum is apparently a 

 co-type. 



15232. S. Canara, Western Madras. Brit. Mus. (Ex.1 



(ex coll. Beddome). 



GROUP V. 

 Gymnodactylus feae, Boulenger. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (i) XIII (XXXIII), p. 313, pi. vii, 

 fig. I (1893). 



I have not seen this species, for the specimens I referred to it 

 in 1905 {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XV, p. 27) were actually young 

 examples of G. consobrinus , Peters. That this was so was first 

 suggested to me by Dr. F de Rooy after an exatnination of 

 one of these specimens. As the original description of G. feae is 

 not always available to Indian herpetologists I quote the essential 

 parts of it. 



''Head large, oviform; snout longer than the orbit, which 

 equals its distance from the ear-opening ; forehead and loreal 

 region concave; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Limbs elon- 

 gate; digits strong, scarcely depressed at the base,, strongly com- 

 pressed distalh^ ; the basal phalanx with well-developed plates 

 beneath. Head granular, the granules intermixed with small round 

 tubercles from between the eyes to the nape, where they increase 

 in size ; rostal twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above ; 

 rostal and first labial entering the nostrils ; seven or eight upper 

 and eight or nine lower labials ; mental triangular ; two pairs of 

 chin-shields, anterior largest and forming a suture behind the 

 mental; throat minutely granulate. Body and limbs granular 

 above, with numerous small, round, keeled tubercles ; a series of 

 small tubercles, on a slight fold, limiting the abdominal region ; 

 ventral scales small, cycloid, imbricate, 35 across the middle of 

 the belly. Male with a cutinuous series of 32 pores along the 

 thighs and across the praeanal region. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 covered with minute granules intermixed with a few large flat, 

 smooth tubercles, which do not form regular rings , except quite at 

 the base ; a series of large transverse plates below. Dark brown 

 above, with four black bars, bordered with white tubercles, on 

 the back, and a crescentic black, white-edged band from eye to 

 eye across the nape ; upper surface of head with large black spots, 



